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The ILO World Conference on Employment was held in Geneva from June 4 to 17, 1976 and after long discussions adopted an action programme which provided for quite a number of measures designed to ensure full employment in developing countries until the year 2000. The problems posed by a policy of full employment in developing countries are indicated in the following article which demonstrates that a change in the inherited power structures is a major prerequisite for an effective policy of full employment.
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Cf., e.g., H. B. Chenery and W. J. Raduchel, Substitution in Planning Models, in: H. B. Chenery (ed.), Studies in Development Planning, Cambridge, Mass., 1971, p. 29 ff.
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Hamburg University.
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Shams, R. Employment policies in developing countries. Intereconomics 11, 339–342 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02929496
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02929496